The World Line of the Horizon Star

Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world

Postas with the mostas

January 27th, 2004

Current Mood:

statistically informative

Current Music:

Barenaked Ladies: "When You Dream"

I come up with some of the damndest ideas when I'm looking for trouble in which to involve myself. For my latest excursion, I have compiled a table showing the posting frequency of the people on my friends list. The posting frequency is found by dividing the total number of posts by the journal's age in days. The table is sorted by posting frequency in descending order.

LJ Matriarch, or...

One suggestions to make the results more reflective of the actual *content* of the posts would be to use the length of each post in that expression. A nice way to keep MEGAPOSTS from dominating things would be to either sqrt or log the length before summing....

Re: Well, that's a crapload more work...

I think there's an API that lets you harvest a user's journal (well, at least those posts you have access to). There might also be an LJ stats API. No idea, but I'm sure someone's asked for it by now. ;-)

Laziness is a virtue in a software engineer!

The lazy engineer does it right the first time, because it's a pain in the ass to do it over. The lazy software engineer carefully documents his code, so that he doesn't have to reverse-engineer it the next time he has to work on it.

Yeah, and that's not all that's funny!

Notice the big jump at both ends. It is a smooth progression except for the last items on either the top or bottom. The next person up from you posts half again as often as you do. Look at the bottom of the table. The people who post less than I do, post less than half as often. Seems to be a sort of bell curve distribution.

Re: Yeah, and that's not all that's funny!

You've got a lot of ground to cover then. I suspect that the vast bulk of LJ posters post somewhere between one post in every three days and five posts in every three days. The mean people appear to be consume, fearsclave and ingenuemuse, who post an average of three posts every three days, or one a day.